{"product_id":"flesh-9781529932423","title":"Flesh","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel, about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother’s age – as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that István himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the twenty-first century’s tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London’s super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpare and penetrating, Flesh is the finest novel yet by a master of realism, asking profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: David Szalay\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 19 Mar 2026 by Vintage Publishing.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"David Szalay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320780005754,"sku":"9781529932423","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781529932423.jpg?v=1790661448","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/flesh-9781529932423","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}